Sentence examples for dame of a from inspiring English sources

"Getting that amount of land with a grand old dame of a house in Singapore is extremely difficult".

As for Ms. Smolan, she is trying the branding-first approach again, this time with a former grande dame of a hotel, in Bordighera, on the Italian Riviera.

Across the street, the owners of 5 Beekman Street, a long-vacant, 19th-century grande dame of a building on the block's northwest corner, appear confident they will soon sell to a buyer who will create a luxury hotel.

The proposed renovation would in fact restore the image of this only remaining grande dame of a gentler time and enhance the ambience of a unique and once eclectic zone.

Bette Bourne is a rasping, pantomime dame of a Nurse; James Garnon's Mercutio is more stirring as a dueller than a speaker; Tom Burke's Romeo begins with the right soppiness but fades as the play goes on.

The grande dame of a building even has its own grande dame, Dodo Burke, who at 98 has lived there for 50 years, first at the hotel when it was open just for the summer, now in a fourth-floor condominium facing the ocean.

We were booked into the Hotel Grande Bretagne, a magnificent grande-dame of a hotel.

"Driving Lessons" belongs to that hardy niche of British comedies designed as star vehicles for distinguished actresses (preferably Dames) of a certain age whose assignment is to win awards by devouring the scenery.

One of the novel's loveliest, most prickly characters is Miss Perry, the grande dame of South County, a founder of the private academy Elsie attended — and the Latin teacher who introduced her to the beauty and mysteries of nature.

Under the screaming headline "DAME Of Thrones," a series of photos featuring the "Game Of Thrones" women cropped up on Entertainment Weekly a month ago.

She was a Dame of Malta, and a Dame of the Holy Sepulcher.